Isaias has conducted a multi-site ethnographic fieldwork in Ayacucho and Lima, Peru, among Quechua speaking relatives of desaparecidos, legal personnel, human rights attorneys, and former officials of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) involved in ongoing criminal procedures against perpetrators of state-sponsored crimes during the Peruvian counterinsurgency campaign of the 1980s and 1990s. His dissertation considers the place of criminal law in the project of transitional justice through which the Peruvian post war democracy seeks to address the legacy of state-sponsored crimes against Quechua speaking peoples and communities as it is experienced in their everyday lives. In particular, he is interested in examining how relatives of desaparecidos and survivors of state sponsored massacres constitute themselves as subjects of rights while engaging criminal law in search of legal justice and, in turn, how they are constituted as particular types of legal subjects through criminal law?s procedures and technologies. In doing so, his dissertation aims to shed light on how larger political and legal processes such as democratic transition, transitional justice and national reconciliation are experienced at the local level and lived and embodied in victims? everyday lives.
2008 Dean's Teaching Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University
2006-2007 National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (NSF)
2005-2006Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
2005 Program for Latin American Studies (PLAS) grant for summer fieldwork, Johns Hopkins University
2004 Program for Women and Gender Studies (WGS) grant for summer fieldwork, Johns Hopkins University
2001 Jaffar Sidiq Hamzah grant for Human Rights Activists graduate studies, The New School University, New York
1998 The Junior Scholar Program fellowship, the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2008 (Spring) Instructor for the course: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Latin America - Cross-listed course Department of Anthropology and Program for Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
2008 (Fall) Instructor for the course: Human Rights in Latin America - Cross-listed course Department of Anthropology and Program for Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
"Writing the Aftermath. Anthropology and Post Conflict in Latin America." Deborah Poole ed. A Companion to Latin American Anthropology. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008)
"Yuyanapaq: Photography and Memory in Post-War Peru" (with Deborah Poole) Angela Canepa ed., Antropologia Visual en el Peru (Lima, Peru: Fondo Editorial PUCP, forthcoming)
"Ahorita lo solucionamos'. Guerra, Intimidad y Corrupción en Peru" Oscar Ugarteche ed. Vicios Publicos, Poder y Corrupción (Fondo de Cultura Economica and SUR: Lima, 2005)
"La Crisis Colombiana y Perú" Colombia Internacional (1) 60 (Centro de Estudios Internacionales. Universidad de los Andes: Bogotá, 2005)
"Peru: Drug Control Policy, Human Rights, and Democracy" Youngers, Coletta and Eileen Rosin eds. Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004).
"The Push for Zero Coca: Democratic Transition and Counternarcotics Policy in Peru" The Drug War Monitor, February 2003. (Washington Office for Latin America, Washington DC, 2003).
2002-2003 Consultant for the research project "Drugs and Democracy in Latin America. The Impact of US Policy". Washington Office for Latin America, Washington DC
1988-2001 Member of the Steering Committee, Director of the Program for Education in Human Rights, and Founding Member/ Associate Editor of the monthly magazine Ideele, Instituto de Defensa Legal. Lima, Peru.
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